4star DE from Waggener, Tahj Rice commits to DUKE
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This was literally the one guy from KY that louisville needed to pick up. The rest would just be icing on the cake. We need DL and LB in this next class. Tajh was the best available that we could have realistically picked up. Would have been great if we could have gotten him and Dumervill (sp?). Now our best available may be Dumervill but I am skeptical of if he's in good shape. Rivals says he's already 350. Probably needs to drop 30 to 40 lbs to play on the college level. We can't have a dud class on the front 7 as that is the most important part of the defense and arguably the team.
I also believe there is a linebacker from Bowling Green that would be someone we need to close on.
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Considering the multiple comments about UL's need for D line, he must really want to go to Duke.
Yeah I heard from a friend who was an assistant for Waggener for a little while that Tajh had always wanted to go to Duke.
He really liked the strong academics that Duke had to offer. He wanted the best education he could get and he perceived that to be at Duke. So I've heard anyway.
This will be interesting to see how this pans out since Waggener is not a college prepatory school. If Duke is as academically advanced as everyone says I would think he would struggle academically.
Local football blue-chippers seldom pan out here or anywhere else. The B&B boys over a decade ago are the only recent exceptions.
I want the local kids to sign here, but I seldom sweat it when they don't. Gimme those Florida and Georgia guys...
I want the local kids to sign here, but I seldom sweat it when they don't. Gimme those Florida and Georgia guys...
I agree for the most part but those B and B boys were the last time we were a legitimate top 5 team, although we were sold short because of AAC in teddy's final year. The only team that comes close to the year we lost to Rutgers (2006 I believe) is the 2013 team teddy led to the Russell athletic bowl that stomped Miami. If only we didn't lose to UCF.
I've also heard from "them" that he has a girlfriend that will be going to a smaller school in North Carolina close to Durham. I freely admit that this is totally unsubstantiated.
...So take it for what its worth.
...So take it for what its worth.
If someone is truly concerned with Academics, you can't fault them for going to Duke. Who was the DB from Trinity (White maybe?) that chose Vandy over us a few years ago? He said flat out it was all about academics.
If you don't think you have much of a shot at the NFL, but can get a free education from the Harvard of the south, go for it.
If you don't think you have much of a shot at the NFL, but can get a free education from the Harvard of the south, go for it.
Just because a kid goes to Waggener or any other JCPS doesn't mean he will struggle at Duke. That is as ridiculous as arguing that you can't get as good of an education at UofL as you can get at Duke. You get the education you work for. You don't have to go to St. X or Trinity or Collegiate to be ready to do the work at Duke. I'm a product of another JCPS school - Fern Creek - and I've done alright.
Me too.
But my (step) daughter is a different story. Short version:
Went to JCPS. Was on Honor Roll from jump. (I tried to tell her Mom something was amiss, but...)
Goes to uk, takes her Fr Intro exam, and is immediately placed in basic English and Math. Would she have been admitted to Duke? IDK.
Follow the money.
The JCPS gets more "funding" when they show "progress". Can't blame the kids when the school is telling them how smart they are.
She worked through it and has a great job she loves.
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That makes sense. If football doesn't work out would you rather have UL or duke on a resume. No comparison in my opinion. Smart move on his part.
They call it the Harvard of the South. I guess he knows what he wants. Just a shame that the cards couldn't get him to consider staying in the area.
I am basing my opinion on real statistics only 17% of the kids from public schools ever graduate from college.
That doesn't mean you can't get an education that will prepare you for a college education at a public school. If you do the work and take the right classes at a public school you can get ready for college, any college. Just last week up here in Cincinnati NBC featured quadruplets, all products of a public high school, who all got accepted to Harvard and Yale. At a lot of public schools you might not get pushed like you would at a private school so if you are not motivated it's much easier to just take an easy road and not be ready for college. But it's not a given that you can't prepare for the best college at a public school. My daughter went to a public high school and will graduate with a Masters Degree from a South Carolina Medical School this summer.
Well like I said Wagner is not considered a college prep school. I am going to ignore the Harvard comment because for the past 10 years or more the Ivy League schools ( and I do mean all of them ) have taken students with less than stellar academic achievements. As a matter of fact you can get into an Ivy League school by winning an essay contest. It has to do with the schools meeting obligations for federal grant money more than academics.
So he didn't choose Louisville, which means he is too stupid for college anyhow? I don't understand why we wanted him anyhow. Is he even smart enough to read a playbook?
I never said he was stupid I think we will find out more about Duke than him. We always hear how the ACC schools are so far ahead of us academically and that everything about them is academics. This will be a good indication for me on how far ahead of us Duke is or not.
I cannot find issue with a kid that chooses a school for it's academic reputation. In fact, I think it's a more important issue than that school's athletic reputation. However, with that being said, if an athlete plans to come back to this area to make a living he/she might be better off if they choose a local University and bust their *** in their chosen major. Just a thought.
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Today it's ALL about money.
The student is second, and commonly third, after sports.
Grant money. TV money. Gov't money.
That's ALL that matters to these "schools" today.
If you say so.
By the way, if your screen name indicates Fredricksburg, TX I might agree with you.